Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
With the 2014 race for governor getting more and more serious all the time, Pennsylvania Democrats are starting to confront the elephant in the room when it comes to putative front-runner Allyson Schwartz.

Before entering politics, the 13th District congresswoman ran a Philadelphia women's clinic where abortions were performed. Writing in the Inquirer this morning, our colleague Tom Fitzgerald asks the simple question: How will that play outside of Philadelphia?

Republicans see it as a vulnerability:

"A Philadelphia liberal woman who ran an abortion clinic is not going to play in some parts of the state, particularly out west," said Republican strategist Nachama Soloveichik of the Pittsburgh firm Cold Spark Media, tells Fitzgerald. "The ads almost write themselves. In many places, she could be portrayed as someone who is 'not one of us' and 'doesn't understand our culture.' "

But Schwartz's supporters, galvanized by the election of Kathleen Kane as attorney general in 2012, are confident about their chances. Add in Gov. Tom Corbett's unpopularity among female voters and Schwartz's formidable fund-raising skills, and it's a race.

Speaking of which, as expected, York businessman and former Rendell administration official Tom Wolf of York officially entered the Democratic Guvstakes on Monday. He's vowed to put up at least $10 million of his own fortune to finance his bid, the Associated Press reports.

The rest of the day's headlines start now:
First it was guns, now U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., says he's come around on gay marriage, our colleague Robert Vickers reports. If he flips on abortion, this could be one of the most remarkable political maturations of the last decade.

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